Jake Arrieta Quotes
If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
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…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.
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If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
